General Furniture
Design Graphic Design
Industrial Design Interior Design
E-Journals Return
to General Resources
British Design
& Art Direction (D&AD)
Professional body for British design, includes link to Design
Week magazine.
British Design
Initiative
Design & Applied
Arts Index
Excellent index of journal articles
Design
Council
Directory
of UK Design Consultants
Lookupdesign.com
Design directory from Janvier Publishing listing services in
the creative, media and related fields. Quick searches are free, but further information
has to be paid for on-line.
Millennium
Products
Examples of new British design with facility for searching by
category, product and business.
MoCo Loco
(Modern contemporary design & architecture) : MoCo Loco is a web magazine
featuring modern contemporary design news and views.
Yahoo:
Arts: Design Arts
Large collection of categories, including architecture,
interior design, graphic design, industrial design and furniture.
Furniture Design
British Furniture
Manufacturers [BFM]
Aims "to promote the British Furniture Industry
nationally & internationally and to encourage the use of best practice and
co-operation between companies & their customers."
Large collection of resources relating to the industry,
design and history of furniture. Good links to contemporary and historical furniture
designers including Bruer, Rietveld, etc.
Worshipful
Company of Furniture Makers
Official site of the livery company, includes information about student bursaries and
awards.
Graphic Design
Absolut Vodka
Site relating to the Absout Vodka advertising campaigns.
Animation Art Gallery
Association of
Illustrators [UK]
Association
of Medical Illustrators [US]
Association of Science
Fiction & Fantasy Artists [US]
Graphic
Design: welcome from the Mining Company
Large collection of sources.
Page Resource
Commercial organisation offering tutorials in the use of
HTML, JavaScript and general web page design.
Industrial Design
Ron Arad: Interview with the Israeli artist, designer, and architect, a central figure in contemporary design. Features recent designs, and useful links to websites for manufacturers whose collections include his design work.
Bang & Olufsen: Registration is required to access detailed company history and take a virtual tour through their design and manufacturing departments. But company press releases for recent years, product details and images may be viewed without the need to register.
Luigi Colani: Examples of his design philosophy accompany the futuristic projects of this controversial figure.
Dyson UK: Detailed history of the company and its revolutionary designs for vacuum cleaners and washing machines. Includes film of the television advertising and animated diagrams to explain how these products work.
Industrial Design Society of America
International Council of Societies of Industrial Design [ICSID]
Sony Global: Includes detailed images of products and services as well as their Press Releases from 1996 onwards.
Virtual Design Museum : Provides access to screen versions of a good collection of promotional brochures for leading international industrial designer and design companies
Interior Design
British Interior
Design Association
Interior
Internet
"The largest one-stop source for interiors and
architecture on the internet with over 15,000 products and services."
Listed below are just a few commercially available electronic journals. For the full range of electronic journals provided through Birmingham City University Libraries, arranged by title, subject and service provider, see Electronic Journals.
Abitare
Architectural Review
Computer Arts
Creative
Review
Critique Magazine
Design Week
Graphis
I.D: the
International Design Magazine
Innovation:
Journal of the Industrial Design Society of America
Metropolis
Modern|postmodern
Things
Wallpaper
Send comments to john.ridgway@bcu.ac.uk